Georgina Kyllo
Georgina was introduced to yoga in the late 90s by a dear friend, Jeanne Lamb. Her first class, she remembers thinking she wouldn’t enjoy herself as she sat surrounded by oddly dressed yogis holding unbecoming postures and discussing their latest trips to India. When it was time for introductions, she nervously said her name and began to cry. She felt silly, unable to speak through her tears. The woman beside her patted her knee and the instructor smiled and said, “It’s ok Georgina. This is normal. Just know you are in a safe place, now, to cry.”
This compassion from complete strangers was all so foreign to her. She felt love.
Yoga flowed in and out of her life and but it wasn’t until her Dad got ill that it became her life. Yoga supported her to grieve and let go in a kind way. After her Dad passed, she met her teachers Karuna and Paul Erickson at one of their Heart Yoga Retreats. It was the healing experience she deeply needed. Since then, she has shown up on her mat, encouraged her family to practice, received her teaching certification and opened a yoga studio with her daughters. She enjoys the gentleness of yoga, connecting breath with subtle movements that strengthen and soften you.
Yoga has created her way of life. It has helped her to cope with loss, anxiety and her battle with depression. When she teaches, she is able to bring in her experience of dealing with depression and anxiety and knows how to truly connect the healing aspect of yoga and breath to the practice. She knows that when you have experienced mental illness yourself, it carries weight. She can speak of how she was able to rise out of that dark place and into a healing way of life. The peace you crave can be accomplished.
Now with 6 beautiful grandchildren, she also loves teaching youth yoga and sharing so much of the compassion and joy that yoga has taught her. She believes that all of us truly need positive body yoga that connects us to ourselves. We all need to engage in self-care and self-love. She found that yoga is the perfect way to experience it whether you are on your mat or out in this crazy world we live in.
Her goal is to live a long and healthy life so she can truly spoil her grandchildren with yoga and chanting but also her gift to them of more "Nani" time, which includes snuggle naps, dunking hobnobs in tea and many hugs and kisses.
200-Hr RYT (Heart Yoga: Karuna and Paul Erickson)
Multi Style Yoga Institute Certification 500 RYT
Currently working towards Yoga Therapy Certification. (Ajna Yoga, Victoria BC)
www.iamyogashuswap.com.
Georgina was introduced to yoga in the late 90s by a dear friend, Jeanne Lamb. Her first class, she remembers thinking she wouldn’t enjoy herself as she sat surrounded by oddly dressed yogis holding unbecoming postures and discussing their latest trips to India. When it was time for introductions, she nervously said her name and began to cry. She felt silly, unable to speak through her tears. The woman beside her patted her knee and the instructor smiled and said, “It’s ok Georgina. This is normal. Just know you are in a safe place, now, to cry.”
This compassion from complete strangers was all so foreign to her. She felt love.
Yoga flowed in and out of her life and but it wasn’t until her Dad got ill that it became her life. Yoga supported her to grieve and let go in a kind way. After her Dad passed, she met her teachers Karuna and Paul Erickson at one of their Heart Yoga Retreats. It was the healing experience she deeply needed. Since then, she has shown up on her mat, encouraged her family to practice, received her teaching certification and opened a yoga studio with her daughters. She enjoys the gentleness of yoga, connecting breath with subtle movements that strengthen and soften you.
Yoga has created her way of life. It has helped her to cope with loss, anxiety and her battle with depression. When she teaches, she is able to bring in her experience of dealing with depression and anxiety and knows how to truly connect the healing aspect of yoga and breath to the practice. She knows that when you have experienced mental illness yourself, it carries weight. She can speak of how she was able to rise out of that dark place and into a healing way of life. The peace you crave can be accomplished.
Now with 6 beautiful grandchildren, she also loves teaching youth yoga and sharing so much of the compassion and joy that yoga has taught her. She believes that all of us truly need positive body yoga that connects us to ourselves. We all need to engage in self-care and self-love. She found that yoga is the perfect way to experience it whether you are on your mat or out in this crazy world we live in.
Her goal is to live a long and healthy life so she can truly spoil her grandchildren with yoga and chanting but also her gift to them of more "Nani" time, which includes snuggle naps, dunking hobnobs in tea and many hugs and kisses.
200-Hr RYT (Heart Yoga: Karuna and Paul Erickson)
Multi Style Yoga Institute Certification 500 RYT
Currently working towards Yoga Therapy Certification. (Ajna Yoga, Victoria BC)
www.iamyogashuswap.com.